Tag: birds

Some fun wildlife shots were in my email inbox this morning, and they’re too good not to share. My favorite of the batch comes from Gary Lund, who shared this photo of a sharp-tailed grouse perched on the deck of his house east of Roseau, Minn., earlier this morning. The Santa bear Christmas ornament adds… Read More

Cardinals are becoming more abundant in Grand Forks and across the region, and Joanna Pearson was pleasantly surprised Saturday to discover a pair nesting in the bottom branch of an evergreen tree in her yard on Ninth Avenue North. Pearson says she found the nest trimming her pine trees and was able to get photos… Read More

It’s official: The peregrine falcon that flew into town last week is Marv, the patriarch of Grand Forks’ peregrine clan the past couple of years. Named after Marv Bossart, a Fargo TV personality who died in 2013, Marv was hatched that same year in Fargo and showed up in Grand Forks to mate the next… Read More

Here’s something you don’t see every day. Ralph Kingsbury of Grafton, N.D., shared this photo of two Canada geese sitting on a barn roof near Grafton. I’ve only heard of this on one other occasion, and that was a barn roof near Malung, Minn., in Roseau County. Here’s Kingsbury’s account of his barn geese encounter:… Read More

A few odds and ends for this Wednesday in early January: The federal Bureau of Land Management recently released a policy document showing migratory bird deaths at oil and gas operation waste pits have been reduced by 50 percent to 75 percent in the past 15 years, saving 1 million to 1½ million birds. According… Read More

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A native of Roseau, Minn., Brad Dokken graduated from Roseau High School in 1979. He then attended Bemidji State University, where he graduated in 1984 with a bachelor’s degree in mass communications and a minor in vocal music. Dokken was managing editor of the BSU’s student newspaper, the Northern Student, and helped launch regular outdoors coverage in the publication. He worked at the Wadena (Minn.) Pioneer-Journal from August 1984 until becoming a copy editor for the Herald’s Agweek magazine in November 1985. He migrated from Agweek to the the copy desk at the Herald in July 1989 and has been the Herald’s outdoors writer since 1998.